ApexSQL Backup Alternatives

ApexSQL Backup

ApexSQL Backup is a tool that enables you to manage and automate backup jobs while preserving the backup chain for easy point-in-time restoration. In addition, it offers automation of restore and log shipping jobs, details of all backup activities, cross server backup management, and increases backup security by automatically performing backup verification. All captured metric values and backup activities are automatically stored in a central database repository – a single SQL Server database which provides easy maintenance. In addition to backup jobs, ApexSQL Backup can perform Index manipulations by analyzing fragmentations and identifying problematic areas, rebuild identified problematic indexes to reduce fragmentation and hence increase the system performance.

Features:

- Supports Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2017 CTP2
- Cross server backup management
- Backup validation Intelligent backup cleanup (keep log chain intact)
- Run an ad-hoc operation or manually run a predefined template
- Supports full, differential, transaction log and filegroups or files backups
- Backup to network destination Native Backup Compression & Encryption Backup history support
- Backup to Azure
- Point in time restore
- Run a custom script after a restore
- Alert on operational failure, success, skip, success w/warning
- A complete backup activity report